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Ebooks = Real BooksFri, 10 Jul 2015 15:50:25 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on The Proof is in the Proofreading by Kari Martindalehttps://jwmanus.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/the-proof-is-in-the-proofreading/#comment-10805
Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:50:25 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?p=3659#comment-10805Thanks so, so much. After reading all of the comments here, I realized that I hadn’t tried a text editor. I copied the Word doc into TextEdit and Bam, when I uploaded it to KDP and previewed it, the markings were gone. For 4 days, I’ve been battling this. I wish I’d found this post sooner!
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Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:13:05 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?p=3659#comment-10804Hi Kari. Track Changes can be evil. I NEVER EVER use it on text I intend to format for an ebook.

But, no, you don’t have to retype the entire doc. You will need to strip the excess formatting and html.

Step One: Open Track Changes and select Accept All Changes. Now turn off TC and the only thing you should see are any comments made in the document.

Step Two: Tag your special formatting (italics or bolding). Then copy/paste the entire body of text from Word into a text editor (Notepad, for example). Everything “underneath” will be gone, including any artifacts from TC.

Step Three: Open a new Word doc, set up your styles (I assume you’re trying to make a ebook out of a Word doc), the copy/paste your text into Word.

Step Four: Restore your special formatting, then style the doc for the ebook.

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Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:41:39 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?p=3659#comment-10803If you wrote using auto format and now can’t get rid of the tracked changes, is there anything that can be done? I’ve tried everything that I’ve been able to find. The highlighted changes are gone from the document but still showing in kindle preview. I just can’t get rid of them. Am I going to need to re-type the entire book in a new document?
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Fri, 03 Jul 2015 01:15:06 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?p=2973#comment-10799No clue if Elizabeth’s issue got sorted out – but – using a Mac I’m finding that when you do the “replace” with -START-^&-END- that it is actually putting your words not where you expect and it’s coming out as: -STARnoT–END- (the word ‘no’ was in italics)… so then when you search the new document for: -START-*-END- it’s not finding anything because in reality it’s come out as: -STAR*T–END- I’m guessing it’s a Mac issue, and there might be a more correct way of doing it on a Mac (like maybe it’s not ^& but something else?) – but it does still work. When you’re ready to get rid of the tags you then have to search for: -STAR* to replace with blank and then T–END- to replace with blank – I recommend doing a single replacement and test so that you can see exactly what’s happening on your document and how to adjust accordingly then proceed from there.
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Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:28:56 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?page_id=2376#comment-10798[…] did NOT want to spend a lot of time doing the things Jaye Manus recommends on her blog for writers who work with Word (sorry, Jaye!), as I’d long ago tired of using […]
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Thu, 25 Jun 2015 01:07:09 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?p=2873#comment-10790Hi Jaye,
Thanks for clearing a few things up here, I understand how variable everything is with getting text formatted – and perhaps the best advice is upload it and then check, and then edit and re-upload it until you get it right.
Thanks Bren Murphy
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Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:05:53 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?p=1534#comment-10777You can do the same thing in Scrivener (find and replace) :D
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Thu, 21 May 2015 23:12:26 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?p=3780#comment-10759Thank you!
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Thu, 21 May 2015 23:12:10 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?p=3780#comment-10758I might be speaking out of turn, but one of the books that Jerry will be bringing out in ebook, eventually, is The Guard Dog: Maximum Protection for You, Your Home, and Your Business. It can be found used on Amazon, but the ebook will be better. (Bad girl? Of course I’m a bad girl {when I’m not too tired or overworked or running behind…})
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Thu, 21 May 2015 23:06:20 +0000http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/?p=3780#comment-10757You’re welcome. :D
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